The ticket for RS-MS1A protocol integration is:
For RS-MS1A and D-Rats integration is that D-Rats needs to know the protocols used for RS-MS1A, and if there is a way to recognize the RS-MS1A frame.
Currently the D-Rats protocols have not been completely mapped out, and we do not know anything yet about the RS-MS1A. I do not know if the D-Rats text and file transfer modes can be changes so that they can work with RS-MS1A frames.
The serial port on Icom D-Star radios is also use for remote control and programming of the radios via programs like Icom provides or the open source . Newer Icom radios provide a bluetooth serial port.
What ever is used for RS-MS1A has to block the binary codes that put the radio in remote control mode from being sent.
D-rats uses y-encoded transmissions to avoid those codes, and then uses a frame structure with binary codes in it.
Getting D-Rats to receive text and pictures from RS-MS1A should not be too hard if we get the RS-MS1A protocols worked out.
Items needed to be known about RS-MS1A:
1. Does it use any frame format, such as headers or checksums.
2. How does it determine a picture sending from a text sending.
3. How does it do the encoding to avoid sending radio control
commands to the radio.
Getting D-Rats to be able to send text and pictures to RS-MS1A based on what I have read on this mailing list would require changing the D-Rats protocols that are sent, and those newer packets would only be readable on that newer version of D-Rats.
There are several enhancement code cleanup tickets that are ahead of any work by me on RS-MS1A.
